Telescopes at the Tech

Bill Arnett

SJAA will be putting on a telescope display and demonstration at TheTech Museum in San Jose
<http://www.thetech.org/> on Saturday and Sunday May 22/23. We have several activities planned:

the pieces of a Dob displayed on a table so folks can see how simple they really are

a mirror making demonstration - so the kids can get their hands dirty :-)

a few scopes setup inside for display

a solar scope or two outside for solar viewing

If all goes well, at the end of the day on Sunday we will reassemble the Dob with the newly polished (but still unaluminized) mirror and take a look at the Moon.

This will be all day for two days so we need some volunteers to man the display and answer questions. We also need a few scopes for display. TheTech has an LX200 (naturally :-) that we will use but it would be nice to have a couple of nice scopes of other designs. We'll also need a mirror kit and the various bits and pieces that go into making a small Dob. If you can help with your time or equipment, please contact Bill Arnett (
mailto:billa@znet.com or 650-780-9645).

If you haven't been to TheTech, it is a very cool place. Well worth a visit, though it may take you a whole day to tear yourself away :-) Those helping with this event will get a free entry to the museum and if we have enough volunteers we'll all have time to wander around a little, too.